Inquiry Project by Jessica Brito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c Empowering Student Writers: Writers for many disciplines and purposes en-us 2018-06-29 18:42:47 UTC 2025-12-29 19:03:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png Kids do this all the time -- How do we link this with school? jbrito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994270 “Given the prevalence of content management systems, social media, mobile- and Web-based properties, and multimodal narratives (Web- based videos, podcasts, and photo-essays) in contemporary organizations, more and more technical and professional writers are delivering content across media in a manner similar to transmedia writers” (McNealy)]]> 2018-06-29 18:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994270 Genre theory connections jbrito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994296
  • “Genre theory fattens the idea of the writing process, fills it out from its sometimes lean appearance in secondary classes. A more complete idea of process, including the introduction of social considerations, can lead to student success with writing” (Dean 4).
  • “Knowing genres gives all writers a ‘meta-rhetorical awareness’ (Horning 261) that allows them to make effective choices al through the writing process” (Dean 4). 
    • Purpose in the steps 
  • “Good writing depends on context -- good writers know this” (Dean 5).
    • Genre knowledge is closely linked to reading
  • “J. L. Lemke claims that ‘genre is potentially the great unifying theme of the language arts curriculum”
  • Both are social processes and participate in social actions
  • Separating the idea of “good” writer and effective within the parameters of the genre 
  • What genres are NOT
    • Primarily literary 
    • Entirely defined by textual regularities in form and content
    • Fixed and immutable 
    • Classifiable into neat and mutually exclusive categories and subcategories
  • What genres have become 
    • Genres are defined by their social situation
    • Genres have come to be seens as typical ways of engaging rhetorically with recurring situations 
    • Although form is an aspect of genre it does not define it 
    • Genres are stable but not unchanging 
  • Genres have aspects that allow classification, but not in the traditional sense of being a label for a category by which to be identified
  • Genres are defined by their development
  • Aspects of genres summarized
    • Social
      • Act in situations but are a product of that situation
    • Rhetorical 
      • Establish and enforce relationships
      • Users are choosing how to effectively accomplish their purposes in each situation
    • Dynamic
    • Historical 
    • Cultural 
    • Situated 
    • Ideological

    • ]]>     2018-06-29 18:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994296     Unfamiliar Genres jbrito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994513
  • “At some point in this history these four modes became synonymous with genres: students were asked to write an exposition paper, a narrative paper, a descriptive paper, or a persuasive paper… what this approach left out, of course, was an understanding that these modes are really not genres at all.”
  • Genre is not a list of characteristics
  • Genre as a dynamic (not static) means of communication
    • They emerge and change as needed 

    • ]]>     2018-06-29 18:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994513     Teaching genre inside out jbrito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994576
  • Not about master particular types of genres as it is being able to assess the social situation and apply learned skills toward it
  • Social Situation
    • Audience
    • Tone
    • Characteristics
    • Purpose
    • Function

    • ]]>     2018-06-29 18:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268994576     How to make students FEEL like writers jbrito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268995857 Getting away from task writing and empowering students with the language and skills to be WRITERS]]> 2018-06-29 19:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268995857 Teaching for Agency jbrito https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268996113 2018-06-29 19:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrito/ud0fhiwnil9c/wish/268996113